docbach Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 welcome other NBR refugees and new forum members! Wasn’t going to do it since I’ve got a gen 11 Blade 15, but figured since I’m planning on travel nursing for longer than originally planned, I’d upgrade to the Blade 17 with the 12900 and 3080ti to mirror my desktop at home. starting this thread so other blade owners can discuss the system and their orders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfn48859 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 i ordered the 17 with qhd, but am thinking of cancelling. Is the uhd display glossy and touchscreen? will i even be able to run aaa titles with decent framerates? I was in process of cancelling the qhd this morning because uhd was back in stock. they went out of stock before i could cancel my order. Im more interested in the glossy display. can i downscale to 2k with the 4k display? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWI Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 My personal opinion, 4k laptop displays are not worth it, the screen isn't big enough to take full advantage of the resolution and it absolutely tanks your framerates compared to 1440p and 1080p. Again, personal opinion here, even running an external screen I don't do 4k, PC hardware just is not up the task of pushing 4k at competitive framerates. Only thing 4k in my house are the TV's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnotaku Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, HWI said: My personal opinion, 4k laptop displays are not worth it, the screen isn't big enough to take full advantage of the resolution and it absolutely tanks your framerates compared to 1440p and 1080p. Again, personal opinion here, even running an external screen I don't do 4k, PC hardware just is not up the task of pushing 4k at competitive framerates. Only thing 4k in my house are the TV's. I generally agree that 4K on a laptop screen doesn't make much sense. However, even on a 27-inch external monitor, the increase in sharpness is quite nice for productivity and content consumption. Further, by using integer scaling, you can run games at 1080p and they will look native while allowing you to get the best performance possible. 1 Desktop: Ryzen 9 5950X | 32 GB RAM | Intel ARC A770 | 2 TB SSD | Windows 10 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i: Core i9-13900HX | 32 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 4080 | 2 TB SSD | Windows 11 Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Gaming: Ryzen 7 6800H | 16 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 3050 | 512 GB SSD | Windows 11 Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro: Ryzen 5 5600U | 16 GB RAM | Radeon Graphics | 512 GB SSD | Windows 11 Apple iPad Gen 9: A13 Bionic | 3 GB RAM | 64 GB | iPadOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docbach Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 2/4/2022 at 7:13 AM, HWI said: My personal opinion, 4k laptop displays are not worth it, the screen isn't big enough to take full advantage of the resolution and it absolutely tanks your framerates compared to 1440p and 1080p. Again, personal opinion here, even running an external screen I don't do 4k, PC hardware just is not up the task of pushing 4k at competitive framerates. Only thing 4k in my house are the TV's. I can always downscale to qhd, the 4K screen still has a pretty quick refresh rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlp0209 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 2/4/2022 at 10:16 AM, saturnotaku said: I generally agree that 4K on a laptop screen doesn't make much sense. However, even on a 27-inch external monitor, the increase in sharpness is quite nice for productivity and content consumption. Further, by using integer scaling, you can run games at 1080p and they will look native while allowing you to get the best performance possible. I agree, haven't tried in quite some time but setting a 27" 4K monitor to 1080p looks fantastic and you also get the great performance. You got rid of your ThinkPad and went with Asus M16?! How do you like it? Alienware X15 R2: i7 12700H / 15.6" 1080p 360hz / RTX 3080 Ti (125-150w vbios) / 32gb DDR5 5200 RAM / 3tb SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruderleichtsinn Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Hi guys, glad a similar forum is showing up after the shutdown of NBR. Anyone here who already dumped or flashed their RBA 11th or 12th gen bios manually with hardware programmer? My Blade is not turning on after the last razer bios update and i wanted to quickly manually flash the extracted original bios to get it back to life again and to avoid the horrible RMA procedure of Razer but i have seen that the bios chip is very different to the one i know from RBA 10th gen books. Would be awesome if someone has experiences with WSON 8x6 chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarginMahkum Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 My Razer Blade 17 with 12900H and 3090 eGPU: What is interesting is the CPU thermal performance, below 90°C when running over 4 GHz. Of course, repasted with PTM7950 pads. I wish I could unlock the PL1/2, as I have the thermal headroom for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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